Maxwell v. Bay City Bridge Co.

This suit is instituted to recover damages for consequential injury suffered by plaintiff as proprietor of lots three, four and five in block thirty of Bay City, in consequence of the keeping up of a bridge by the defendant across the Saginaw river. The plain» tiff’s lots have a front on the river a little below Third street, and they have warehouses upon them with wharf in front, at which the large steamers and other vessels navigating the great lakes and their connecting waters have been accustomed to land and receive passengers and freight. The width of the river at this point is about a…